People Quotes

It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happeningto them.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.